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Boiler wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2026 8:18 pm"I'm good at language"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mj4jeyvmzo

US President Donald Trump has endorsed a former top adviser to ex-British PM David Cameron for governor of California, shaking up an unusually unpredictable race in the heavily Democratic state.

In a Truth Social post, Trump declared Republican candidate Steve Hilton would "be a great governor". The president argued that "Democrats have done an absolutely horrendous job" in California and that "people are fleeing" the state.

Am I correct in thinking CA has a greater GDP than many countries? Must be doing something right there.

Do the MAGA crowd really accept repellent grifter Hilton is a true believer? Toxic effluent in human form.

Boiler wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2026 9:35 pm https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mj4jeyvmzo

Am I correct in thinking CA has a greater GDP than many countries? Must be doing something right there.

There has been a recent population drain from Commiefornia largely down to the cost of living & rocketing house prices, but other than say Texas and New York pretty much any other state in the US would love to have an economny & existininal crises like California. IIRC if California declared independence it would overnight have the sixth largest economny in the world.

Well, here's a surprise.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgqk4kyj4yvo

The US Supreme Court has paved the way for Steve Bannon's contempt of Congress conviction to be thrown out, sending the case back to a lower court where it is likely to be dismissed.

Bannon, one of Trump's most prominent backers, was convicted in 2022 for refusing to respond to lawmakers' subpoenas for information about the January 2021 Capitol riot.

The Trump administration had asked the Supreme Court to dismiss Bannon's case in "the interests of justice".

Checks and balances rides again!

Another perfectly normal day in a perfectly normal country.